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Modeling Dense Stellar Systems:  Tuesday   |   Wednesday

All talks are in Meeting Hall IV. Posters will be displayed in South Hall.



TUESDAY PM  
14:00-15:30 Session 1: Introductions [Chair: Steve McMillan] August 22, 2006
  Piet Hut (USA) Background and Summary of JD06 [20]
  Jun Makino (Japan) Special-Purpose Computing for Dense Stellar Systems [20]
  Panel discussion [30] MODEST, then, now and future
Jarrod Hurley, Natasha Ivanova, Jamie Lombardi, Giampaolo Piotto
16:00-17:30 Session 2: Computer Codes and Clusters [Chair: Simon Portegies Zwart]
  Rainer Spurzem (Germany) GRAPE Clusters [20]
  Sverre Aarseth (UK) NBODY Codes -- latest improvements [20]
  Panel discussion [30] Recent advances in codes & clusters
Christian Boily, Stephen Justham


WEDNESDAY AM  
  9:00-10:30 Session 3: Connections between Stellar Evolution and Stellar Dynamics
                   [Chair: John Lattanzio]
August 23, 2006
  Francesca D'Antona (Italy) Stellar Evolution & Feedback Connections to Stellar Dynamics [20]
  Natasha Ivanova (Canada) Stellar Dynamics & Feedback Connections to Stellar Evolution [20]
  Panel discussion [30] Evolution & Dynamics
Onno Pols, Peter Eggleton
11:00-12:30 Session 4: Are there Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters?
                   [Chair: Hyung Mok Lee]
  Giampaolo Piotto (Italy) Observations of Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters [20]
  Alison Sills (Canada) Dynamical Implications of Multiple Stellar Populations [20]
  Panel discussion [30] Pros & Cons of multiple populations
Francesca D'Antona, Myung Gyoon Lee, Greg Fahlman


WEDNESDAY PM  
14:00-15:30 Session 5: Stellar Exotica in Clusters: Collisions, Blue Stragglers & CVs
                   [Chair: Jamie Lombardi]
August 23, 2006
  Francesco Ferraro (Italy) Observations of Blue Stragglers in Globular Clusters [20]
  Frank Verbunt (Netherlands) Stellar Exotica [20]
  Panel discussion [30] Weird Stars and what they can tell us
Christian Knigge, Alison Sills
16:00-17:30 Session 6: Putting it all together -- Kitchen Sink Models [Chair: Ladislav Subr]
  Jarrod Hurley (Australia) Models of M67 [15]
  David Latham (USA) Spectroscopic Binaries in M67 [15]
  Luigi Bedin (Germany) Observations of Internal Dynamics of Globular Clusters [15]
  Panel discussion [20] What do we need to know to model individual clusters?
Holger Baumgardt, John Fregeau, Enrico Vesperini
  Douglas Heggie (UK) Summary of JD [10]
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